Akran (1969)

"Ohio-based avant-garde filmmaker Richard Myers calls his work "dream films," and so it is with this his first feature film. A collage of images of restless youth, landscapes of alienation, the Vietnam War, consumer civilization and overt racism, Akran is non-narrative but deeply connected to our collective unconsciousness. Amos Vogel described it as "a Joyce-like, dense and somber mosaic of memory and sensory impressions, a texture instead of a plot, a dream-like flow of visually-induced associations"

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[mellenheadprods]

His film "37/73" is probably the best film I HAVE EVER SEEN!

[kaliuzhkin]

I saw this masterpiece, full-length at the University of Michigan, probably in 1969. The film trained me to follow rapid-fire still images and extremely brief moving images. This process is not unlike a baby's learning to process upside-down images on the retina. We've all done it.

When the lights went on at the end of the film, I experienced an altered state of consciousness, just as if I had taken a hallucinogenic drug. I hadn't. I had just seen Akran.

[keyboardhero521]

How does one adequately describe the depth of feeling in this collage?